A stitch in time: Self-regulation and proactive coping.

Aspinwall, Lisa G.; Taylor, Shelley E.

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“…The stress-generating role of avoidance coping identifies a key path by which these coping strategies are linked to psychological distress. From a preventive perspective, this finding reinforces Aspinwall and Taylor's (1997) call for research on proactive coping. Active, future-directed coping efforts may operate as a positive analog of the present model, reducing future stressors and, indirectly, protecting against subsequent depressive reactions.…”

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Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Moos

Holahan

Brennan

et al. 2005

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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This study examined (a) the role of avoidance coping in prospectively generating both chronic and acute life stressors and (b) the stress-generating role of avoidance coping as a prospective link to future depressive symptoms. Participants were 1,211 late-middle-aged individuals (500 women and 711 men) assessed 3 times over a 10-year period. As predicted, baseline avoidance coping was prospectively associated with both more chronic and more acute life stressors 4 years later. Furthermore, as predicted, these intervening life stressors linked baseline avoidance coping and depressive symptoms 10 years later, controlling for the influence of initial depressive symptoms. These findings broaden knowledge about the stress-generation process and elucidate a key mechanism through which avoidance coping is linked to depressive symptoms. Keywords life stressors; stress generation; coping strategies; avoidance coping; depressive symptoms Two cardinal assumptions guided early stress research: The stress process is initiated by life stressors, and these stressors cause psychological and physical distress. Contemporary research has provided a more refined understanding of the stress process and a revision of both of these assumptions. Research on stress generation has revealed that the stressorillness relationship can operate in both directions, with emotional distress producing new stressors (for a review, see Hammen, 1999). Moreover, an extensive body of research has identified the central role of coping strategies in individuals' differential vulnerability to life stressors (for a review, see Holahan, Moos, & Bonin, 1999). Surprisingly, these ideas about the role of stress generation and coping strategies in the stress process have evolved Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Charles J. Holahan, Department of Psychology, A8000, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. holahan@psy.utexas.edu. independently. The purpose of this study was to integrate the stress-generation and coping perspectives to test a prospective model of depressive symptoms over a 10-year period. NIH Public AccessIn an important revision of traditional stress models, Hammen (1991) proposed that depressed individuals, through their depression and related behaviors, generate life stressors, which, in turn, increase subsequent depressive symptomatology. Hammen found that unipolar depressed women generated more interpersonal life stressors across a 1-year period than did control groups of bipolar, medically ill, and healthy individuals. Later research extended the stress-generation model to depressed late-adolescent women (Daley et al., 1997) and clinic-referred youngsters (Rudolph et al., 2000) and, in nonclinical samples, to children of depressed women (Adrian & Hammen, 1993;Hammen, Shih, & Brennan, 2004), wives in newlywed couples (Davila, Bradbury, Cohan, & Tochluk, 1997), and college students (Potthoff, Holahan, & Joiner, 1995). An association between depression and subsequent stressors has been identified for b...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Moos

Holahan

Brennan

et al. 2005

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

412

257

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“…Important for building the case for confidence, such employee concerns over their work are typically linked to a perceived lack of confidence to handle work demands rather than to the objective difficulty of executing such demands (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984;Lazarus & Launier, 1978). I suggest that, in a rapidly changing workplace, employees may become less motivated or even demotivated (Armenakis & Bedeian, 1999;Aspinwall & Taylor, 1997) if they are not confident to handle changing work conditions. Work motivation theories have suggested that successful performance needs both skill and desire (e.g., Maier, 1955;Porter & Lawler, 1968).…”

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Development of a core confidence-higher order construct.

Stajković

2006

Journal of Applied Psychology

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The author develops core confidence as a higher order construct and suggests that a core confidencehigher order construct-not addressed by extant work motivation theories-is helpful in better understanding employee motivation in today's rapidly changing organizations. Drawing from psychology (social, clinical, and developmental) and social anthropology, the author develops propositions regarding the relationships between core confidence and performance, attitudes, and subjective well-being. The core confidence-higher order construct is proposed to be manifested by hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience. The author reasons that these four variables share a common confidence core (a higher order construct) and may be considered as its manifestations. Suggestions for future research and implications of the work are discussed.

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“…The use of substances as a way of coping is also included here (in contrast to substance use habits that develop earlier in life, which are included in the personal system). Coping efforts that are undertaken to prevent or anticipate problems prior to their occurrence are included as proactive coping and goal striving (Aspinwall & Taylor, 1997). As seen in Fig.…”

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“…), and substance use as a way of coping. Proactive coping and goal striving, which are used as preventive measures, are also included in this category (Aspinwall & Taylor, 1997). …”

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Determinants of functioning and well-being among individuals with schizophrenia: An integrated model

Yanos

Moos

2007

Clinical Psychology Review

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Outcomes for health conditions are typically the result of multiple factors; however, studies tend to focus on a narrow class of variables. Functioning and well-being outcomes for schizophrenia are diverse and have resisted simple explanation; however, prior research has not offered an integrated understanding of the relative contributions of enduring and episodic environmental factors, personal resources and psychiatric factors, and cognitive appraisal and coping, on functioning and well-being outcomes in schizophrenia. The present article sets out an integrated model of the determinants of functioning and well-being among individuals with schizophrenia. To examine evidence that bears on the model, literature on hypothesized relationships is reviewed to identify areas for which there is strong evidence and areas where more research is needed. The article suggests areas for further research, and directs researchers and practitioners toward areas of intervention that can enhance functioning and well-being for persons diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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A stitch in time: Self-regulation and proactive coping.

Cited by 1,281 publications

References 207 publications

Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms: A 10-Year Model.

Development of a core confidence-higher order construct.

Determinants of functioning and well-being among individuals with schizophrenia: An integrated model

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